Evil Dragon: The young dragon I picked up keeps planning on becoming an empress-Chapter 833 - 468: Sophia’s Stepmom, Your Divine Personnel Bullied Me and Wants to Seize My Property!
Chapter 833 -468: Sophia’s Stepmom, Your Divine Personnel Bullied Me and Wants to Seize My Property!
The Young Dragon, who had just been helped up by Evelyn, felt her legs weaken at the whispered voice of Holy Knight Steven, nearly falling again, but Evelyn managed to steady her in time, “Your Highness, are you really… alright? If you’re not feeling well, we can find a place to rest today and visit the Valkyrie Temple tomorrow.”
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Just as the Young Dragon was about to nod in agreement, a second thought arose; this wouldn’t do. If Saint Orla and Holy Knight Steven could appear in the Morning Star Domain, and she chose to temporarily evade due to the fear of them recognizing her identity, then it could be possible that Lance might reach the Morning Star Domain even before she could ascend to be the Emperor.
No, she couldn’t run away; she had to face these two “acquaintances” and bet on them not recognizing her!
Besides… she had hardly any contact or interaction with Saint Orla or Holy Knight Steven; she didn’t believe they could recognize her as the Amethyst Young Dragon of the Lance family.
“It’s nothing, I was probably just too excited earlier.” The Young Dragon turned her head and grinned at Evelyn, gesturing to her that no support was needed any longer.
After adjusting her mindset, the Young Dragon crouched down, picked up the fruit basket, and started collecting the fruits that had fallen to the ground; the bruised fruits were still edible, and those unbruised were put back into the basket first. At this time, she could not use the specialty fruits from Black Dragon Island.
Having picked all the scattered fruits back into the basket, the Young Dragon took a deep breath and began walking towards the Valkyrie Temple, appearing in front of Cardinal Garold, Saint Orla, and Holy Knight Steven after just a few steps.
Cardinal Garold scrutinized the girl in front of him who had caused the Martial God Statue to crack, with violet eyes and hair, a clear and pure bright gaze, slightly chubby cheeks, and a clean aura about her. As a cardinal of the Valkyrie Temple, he temporarily didn’t sense any dark or evil aura from the girl.
This girl, no matter how one looked at her, was hard to associate with “evil”.
Saying in front of the followers that this girl had been overtaken by the Evil God, likely no one would believe it.
Saint Orla, too, was curiously examining the Young Dragon, discarding her previous thought that the Martial God Statue had been destroyed by an evil force.
She didn’t feel any trace of evil from this girl either.
Holy Knight Steven was staring into the eyes of the Young Dragon, these eyes… they intensified his feeling of déjà vu.
After a while, he said, “Have we met somewhere before?”
Steven’s words made the Young Dragon’s heart pound; she feigned calmness and replied, “No…we haven’t met, don’t stare into my eyes like that, I’m… scared.”
She was truly scared.
Scared of being recognized by Steven.
“I apologize, it was impolite of me,” Holy Knight Steven slightly toned down his imposing manner, the appearance of a nene pureblood Giant Dragons subconsciously putting him in a “ready for battle” mode.
“A little girl who appeared in the Martial God Temple and caused the Martial God Statue to crack, was it you?” Cardinal Garold asked.
“Not me!” the Young Dragon shook her head repeatedly: “I didn’t do anything. If you suspect me, you might as well question whether the materials used to carve the Martial God Statue were substandard.”
“It was you who confronted the cardinal of the Martial God Temple in the Martial God Temple, right?”
“That, I admit. I’m glad I could make a temple’s cardinal see his way back,” said the Young Dragon, locking eyes with Cardinal Garold, “I think you are also lost, being a cardinal of the Valkyrie Temple, I don’t believe you should interfere too much with the military and government of the Farolan Empire.
At least before the military and government of the Farolan Empire target temple clergy or attack the temple, you should not use the power of deity to influence policies issued by the empire and deal with government officials of the empire.”
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Not bad, she looks harmless but is quite assertive.
“The latest policies issued by the empire, they are targeting temples and divine personnel.”
“No, the policies issued by the empire are not targeting temples and divine personnel; they are protecting the original rights of the empire, meant to prevent temples from overstepping their bounds in local governance.
The empire has never restricted the people’s faith, but temples have been using the faith of the empire’s people to slowly erode the rights of the empire itself. I think the relationship between the temples and the empire should be one of mutual support and respect, not one of mutual hostility, trying to suppress each other.”
The Young Dragon felt this was the right way for temples and the empire to coexist.
But as Lance said, human beings are complex creatures. Some can be perniciously evil while others might sacrifice themselves for humanity, resembling heroes from myths and legends.
Temple clergy are not all noble persons.
There are quite a few who abuse their power.
“So…. are you here today to make the Valkyrie Temple hand over its rights to the Farolan Empire?”
“You are twisting my words; I said it’s about mutual respect, complementing each other. Fine, if you think there’s something wrong with what I said, then tell me, what should the empire do to satisfy you?”
The Young Dragon grew angry; she had spoken so clearly, yet this cardinal before her was still manipulating her words. The empire was not taking advantage of the temple, and the temples should not take advantage of the empire either, was that so difficult?
Lance was right, human greed… is endless… there will never be a day of satisfaction….
